Background: Disease-specific Quality Of Life (QOL) measures are devised to assess the impact of a specific disease across a spectrum of important domains of life. The purpose of this study was to ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Purpose To examine the construct validity of the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 (HUI3) by exploring relationships among several well-recognized ...

1. What is the difference between the reliability and validity of a measurement? The validity of a measure is the extent to which differences in scores on the instrument reflect true differences among ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Objective: To assess the cross-sectional construct validity of the RAND-12 and the Health Utilities Index Mark 2 (HUI2) and Mark 3 (HUI3) in ...

All health care practitioners should be facile in the digital rectal exam (DRE) as it provides prostate, rectal and neurological information. The purpose of this study was first to justify our ...

In my previous blog post, I noted that reliability and validity are two essential properties of psychological measurement. Measures of intelligence, personality, vocational interests, and so forth ...

The exponential growth of quality of life studies over the last three decades appears to be the cause of increased interest in rigorous evaluation of therapeutic interventions. General-health ...